Articles About CBCRO
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008CANON FIRE: RADIO WARS
Why the show may, in fact, go on
In the last of a three-part series, critic Robert-Everett Green talks to the Montreal venture capitalist determined to save the CBC Radio Orchestra - and explains why it may not be the only CBC venture to survive a death foretold
By Robert Everett-Green
*All three articles can […]
Yuel Yawney on the Axing of CBCRO and demise of CBC Radio 2
Friday, August 1st, 2008A Changing Classical Landscape
The Axing of the CBC Orchestra and Demise of CBC Radio Two
By Yuel Yawney
[from Borealis String Quartet Spring 2008 Newsletter, April 2008]
As many of you have heard, the CBC has decided to cut the CBC Radio Orchestra from the Canadian musical landscape. For musicians, composers, and audiences alike, this is an assault […]
CBCRO and Vancouver Chamber Choir: 33 years of Collaboration
Thursday, July 17th, 2008CBC RADIO ORCHESTRA COLLABORATIONS
with the Vancouver Chamber choir
1975-2008: 98 performances of 83 programmes over 33 years
O Canada! Long may you play!
Thursday, June 26th, 2008[Editor’s note: this piece from 2006 is a great backgrounder, not only on the CBC Radio Orchestra but on its cultural relevance for the city and the nation, and how truly innovative and culturally relevant the orchestra is. Italics mine. -John Oliver]
The last of a breed, the CBC Radio Orchestra
sounds vibrantly alive.
By Mark Swed
Los Angeles […]
CBC Radio Orchestra producer Denise Ball honoured
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008I attended Vancouver’s first Mayor’s Arts Awards Ceremony last night (Vancouver Playhouse Theatre). After awards to Yulanda Faris for philanthropy, to Odlum Brown Limited for Business Support, and to Rob O’Dea for volunteerism, the rest honoured those who have achieved great things for our city, and then invited them to choose an emerging artist in […]
Heritage committee asks CBC to reconsider orchestra’s demise - The Georgia Straight
Monday, June 23rd, 2008By Jessica Werb
The House of Commons standing committee on Canadian heritage has concluded in a June 18 report that the CBC’s management and board of directors “should review the decision to disband the CBC Radio Orchestra”.
“Even though it’s in kind of gentle language, it’s quite a slap on the wrist to the board and […]
A View from Yellowknife
Thursday, May 29th, 2008CBC in northern Canada is a lifeline of communication. Nowhere else in Canada are the CBC cutbacks recently made felt so deeply because for most communities, CBC is the only station that offers a national cultural perspective on who we are, what we are doing and where we are going.
To change the format, as […]
Bob Missen, Simcoe Reformer
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008STANDING ON GUARD FOR CBC
by Bob Missen, Simcoe Reformer, May 28, 2008
Last weekend was one of the most glorious I have ever seen. It was a weekend to work in the garden, to meet with friends and family, to revel in the grandeur of all of God’s creation. Fortunately I was able to do all […]
Ben Heppner
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Dear esteemed Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am in a state of shock. As I have travelled throughout the world performing, I have been hearing alarming things about the CBC.
I listened on-line from Paris with sadness as the host of Saturday at the Opera, Howard Dyck, gave his final session. I noted with some fatalistic glee as […]
Ivars Taurins’ Rally Speech
Sunday, May 25th, 2008CBC Rally Speech, May 24, 2008
I’m here today because I have a passion for the things I believe in.
That passion runs deeper than logic can rationalize or explain.
Time and time again the old debate of the relevance of western European art and music in our modern North American society rears its head. What relevance does […]